Kenneth Whyte is the editor-in-chief and publisher of Maclean’s magazine, the first person in the 100-year history of the publication to hold both titles. After his first year on the job, Maclean’s was named magazine of the year at the Canadian Magazine Awards, and audited newsstand sales have jumped more than 50%. He was appointed Vice President, Consumer Publishing and Publisher of Canadian Business, MoneySense and Profit magazines in June 2009. He was named Executive Publisher of Chatelaine Magazine in the fall of 2009 and Executive Vice President, Consumer Publishing, Rogers Publishing Limited in September 2010.

Mr. Whyte has been a practising journalist and commentator on Canadian and international affairs for twenty years. Born in Winnipeg in 1960 and raised in Edmonton, he began his career in journalism as a sports reporter at the Sherwood Park News where he went on to serve as editor-in-chief of the paper.

Mr. Whyte joined Alberta Report weekly newsmagazine as a reporter in the mid-80s and later served as executive editor of the magazine, responsible for all editorial content. Alberta Report achieved its highest circulation during his tenure, and was magazine-of-the-year at the Western Magazine Awards in his last year of service.

In 1993 Mr. Whyte was appointed editor-in-chief of the venerable monthly, Saturday Night. He was the youngest editor-in-chief in the magazine’s history. Under his leadership, Saturday Night won more awards and gained a higher readership than at any time in its 115 years of publication. It was named magazine of the year by the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors.

In 1998, Mr. Whyte was named founding editor of Canada’s newest national newspaper, the National Post. Beginning with a circulation of 90,000, the Post climbed within two years to a circulation of 330,000, an unprecedented feat for a Canadian newspaper. The Financial Post called it the most successful broadsheet newspaper launch in the English-speaking world in fifty years.

In 2003, Mr. Whyte was a visiting scholar in media and public policy at McGill University and co-founder of the Observatory in Media and Public Policy at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.

He was appointed to his current positions at Maclean’s in February, 2005. He is a senior fellow at Massey College, University Toronto, a governor of the Donner Canada Foundation, and a director of the Peter Munk Public Policy Foundation. He has written a book “The Uncrowned King The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst” published by Random House in November 2008.